Experiencing Broadway Music

Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.

Kat Sherrell

Chapter 1: A Great Big Broadway Show: Wicked Chapter 2: The Roots of American Musical Theater: The Great Ziegfeld Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Integration: Very Good Eddie, Shuffle Along, and Show Boat Chapter 4: The Great Depression and The Great American Songbook: Anything Goes and Porgy & Bess Chapter 5: A Golden Age of Broadway: Rodgers and Hammerstein Chapter 6: Rock on Broadway: Hair Chapter 7: Concept Musicals: Sondheim: The Birthday Concert and A Chorus Line Chapter 8: Mega-Musicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Gold Album and Les Misérables Chapter 9: Musicals for the MTV Generation: Rent and Spring Awakening Chapter 10: Diversity and Integration: Hamilton